[Capture news] "Beyond Imagination"...KAIST Students Failing Their Tasks, Unexpected Results

A student looks at the monitor and thinks about it.

It analyzes how the policy of increasing the number of medical schools affects science and engineering personnel.

However, interviews became difficult due to doctors leaving the hospital, and there was no research fund, so the study eventually failed.

[Jun Jun-hyung / KAIST Computer Department student: I needed to pay for interviews, surveys, or data collection, but since I'm a student, I had a lot of difficulty securing this cost.] Kim Se-heon challenged the full course of



I ran 42.195km after losing 28kg, but I failed to pace myself and couldn't finish.

Mr. Kim strengthened his will, saying that he would take a leap forward again using his failure as a stepping stone.

[Kim Seheon / Electrical and electronic engineering student at KAIST: Persistence is important to become a researcher, but I felt it was important to set a big goal and challenge in the process of failing the marathon]

The "Failure Challenge Showoff Competition" was held again last year to share the frustrations and failures experienced by students and examples of overcoming them.

It is a competition designed to instill a spirit of challenge that is not afraid of failure, and a total of eight teams participated this year to introduce their experiences of failure.

The awards were also given through on-site voting, with the team that failed but wanted to cheer for success receiving the "Fancy Emergency" and the team that most interestingly solved the failure experience receiving the "You're More Than Imagined."

Along with this year's competition, the KAIST Failure Research Institute conducted a "public perception survey on challenges and failures," and the results showed that the younger generation, the greater the fear of failure.

[Cho Seong-ho / Director of KAIST Failure Research Center: What successful people have in common is that they have grown through numerous failures in the process. In fact, you can't achieve great success without failure. [I hope students develop that kind of attitude]Students' failures are probably the beginning of a new study, as the phrase

{Failure is not the end, but a new beginning'.

We hope that students will gain the power to discover and challenge the scientific value of failure through this event.

I'm YTN Science Lim Neul-sol.

video recording | Kim Young-hwan
editing video|Hwang Yu-min
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